Improved button-hole and buckle



waited quaint @sind @wie Letters .Patent No. 94,002, dated August 24, 1869.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

To all whom 'it may. concer-'n Be it known that 'I, LOUIS A. KETTLE, of 'Philadeiphia, Pennsylvania, have invented a new and improved Combined Button-Hole and Buckle; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full and exact description of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making part of this specification, in which- Figures 1 and 2 are perspective views, and show diierent modifications of my improvement.

F-igure 3 shows a modification of'lny improvement, with the'addit-ion of a strap-loop.

Figure 14, a buckle and button-hole, composed of one continuous piece of wire, bent to the required shape.

Figure 5 shows the application of iig. 4.

My invention consists of a buckle combined with a spring-wire button-hole and strap-loop, as in iig. 3, or without the strap-loop, as in figs. l and 2,.or the buckle and button-hole may be formed of one continuous piece of wire, as in iig. 4, which latter is adapted for permanent attachment to the back of the suspender, in the manner shown iu iig. 5.

In the drawings- A is the ordinary buckle-frame in common use, to

which I apply my improvement.

B is the button-hole loop.

C is the lower part of this button-hole loop B, in which the button rests..

D, ig.'3, is thc strap-loop, for receiving the end of the strap, after being passed through the. frameAand secured by the prongs.

E, figs. 1, 2, and 4, is a space answering the same purpose in these figures as loop I) does inuiigr 3, viz, to receive and hold down the loose endof the strap projecting beyond the prongs, as shown in fig. 5. The wire forming this space E, serves a's' a shaft forattaching the two parts together; except in iig. 4, where p no joint or hinge is required, where itaets as a rest and shield for the prongs FF, as well as receiving the end of the strap or suspender, as'aforesaid.

The .suspender or strap is pushed through the frame A, and secured by the prongs in the usual way. The loose end is then passed down through loop I), (when a buckle, like fig. 3, is used,) or through space E in the other modifications. The butt-on is then slipped through the elastic spring-wire button-hole loop B, and from there passes to its resting-place O, which holds thev button firmly.

Fig. 2 operates like iig. 1, the difference between them being in the joint or hinge, the joint or hinge in fig. 2 being formed by wrapping the wire one or more times around the shaft or frame', and then passing it upward, forming the prongs.

The loop D, iig. 3, is formed of one piece of wire, with the prongs and bntton-hole loop B, as shown, the wholebeing formed of one pieee, by machinery, and as quickly made as hooks and eyes, ready 'to be attached to th'e shaft or frame A.

My improvements, being formed of wire-spring, are necessarily slightly-elastic.

I am well aware that rigid metallic button-holes have been heretofore attached to buckles and other articles, and'also, that rigid metallic strap-loops haveV been used; but

What I claim, is

1. Forming a spring-wire button-hole and prongs of GORGE E. BUCKLEY, W. A. A. MCKINLEY. 

